In the first debate among Republican Party candidates seeking the nomination to run for President in 2008, Senator John McCain slammed Congressional Democrats, and accused them of ‘cheering surrender’ as they tried to change the course of the war in Iraq.

“I would need the support of the American people, and we need to show them some success in Iraq, both on the battlefield, and with the Maliki government. We have a new strategy, and that strategy can succeed…but when the Majority Leader of the US Senate says we’ve lost the war, the American people reject that notion,” the Arizona Republican who ran for President in 2000 said.

McCain then slammed Democratic Members of Congress further for cheering when they passed their war funding bill recently.

“What were they cheering. Surrender, defeat? We must win in Iraq,” he said.

The debate took place in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

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Glenn Greenwald psychs out a WSJ Article by Harvard Government Professor Harvey Mansfield explaining why the President has the RIGHT to overturn the “Rule of Law”. When reading this gem, it is important to realize this man IS exactly what George Bush believes. His little bits about how men are strong and women are “meant to attract strong men” should tell you that holding your nose while reading this screed is a given. Professor Mansfield used to be a real right wing wack job, but as Glenn explains, his views are actually currently within the Republican mainstream…a scary thought in and of itself. That Professor Mansfield truly believes this claptrap is not really an issue, the main question should be WHY Harvard bothers to pay him a salary?

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s former No. 2 official testified Thursday he was unaware of plans to fire underperforming U.S. attorneys and praised all but one of the eight who were purged last year.

Jim Comey, who served as deputy attorney general from 2003 to 2005, said he had one 15-minute conversation during his tenure about prosecutors who were considered weak managers. Only one of the eight who were ultimately fired _ Kevin Ryan, the former U.S. attorney in San Francisco _ fit that description, Comey said.

The others were doing their jobs well, Comey told a House Judiciary subcommittee investigating the firings.

His testimony starkly contrasted with the Justice Department’s insistence that the eight were ordered to resign in a midterm purge because they were considered underperformers in some of the Bush administration’s priority crime-fighting areas.

David Iglesias of New Mexico, for example, was “a very effective U.S. attorney,” Comey said. He called Daniel Bogden of Nevada “as straight as a Nevada highway and a fired-up guy” and Paul Charlton of Arizona “one of the best.”

During the first Democratic presidential debate a little known candidate, former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel, ended up with one of the most memorable lines of the evening:

“And I got to tell you, after standing up with them, some of these people frighten me–they frighten me. When you have mainline candidates that turn around and say that there’s nothing off the table with respect to Iran, that’s code for using nukes, nuclear devices.

“I got to tell you, I’m president of the United States, there will be no preemptive wars with nuclear devices. To my mind, it’s immoral, and it’s been immoral for the last 50 years as part of American foreign policy.”

Of the eight candidates on that stage in South Carolina, only Gravel and Congressman Dennis Kucinich will say that there is no reason for the American people to incinerate the Iranian people with nuclear weapons.

When Senator Barack Obama repeated the lie that Iran is on the verge of attaining nuclear capability only Kucinich would call him out. He politely said that Obama’s assertions were in dispute.

Obama: I think it would be a profound mistake for us to initiate a war with Iran.
But, have no doubt, Iran possessing nuclear weapons will be a major threat to us and to the region.

Kucinich: (OFF-MIKE)

Obama: I understand that, but they’re in the process of developing it. And I don’t think that’s disputed by any expert. They are the largest state sponsor of terrorism…

Kucinich: It is disputed by…

Obama: … Hezbollah and Hamas.

Kucinich: It is disputed.

Obama: And there is no contradiction, Dennis, between…

Kucinich: It is disputed.

Obama: Let me finish.

Kucinich would have been correct if he had called Obama a liar. Gravel is right, most of the Democrats are very frightening indeed.

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While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has famously stated that impeachment proceedings against President Bush or Vice President Cheney are “off the table,” many activists feel that the tide is beginning to turn.

For a previous report on this past weekend’s California Democratic Convention in San Diego, RAW STORY obtained responses about impeachment directly from Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and 2008 candidates New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and former Alaskan Senator Mike Gravel. A blogger present at the convention also helped pose the question to Senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (full article at this link).

While Gravel indicated that impeachment “will come, in due course,” Dodd told RAW STORY that having “been down that road” before with former President Clinton, he believes that “[i]t sucks all of the oxygen out of the air.”

However, on Sunday, April 29, California delegates and state party members sent a powerful message to Pelosi and Congressional Democrats. “In a resolution affirmed by the full state party convention Sunday, the Democrats called on the U.S. Congress to use its subpoena power to investigate misdeeds of President Bush and Vice President Cheney – and to hold the Administration accountable ‘with appropriate remedies and punishment, including impeachment,'” a letter to Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) members obtained by RAW STORY states.

The letter continues, “The delegate insurgency was coordinated by Progressive Democrats of America and its allies. While Speaker Pelosi had declared impeachment ‘off the table,’ the Democratic Party rank-and-file has demonstrated its commitment to putting the issue ‘on’ the table. And it’s no longer just the rank-and-file: Even among the members of the convention’s Resolutions Committee (appointed by the California Party chair), the impeachment resolution was the top vote-getter (tied with one other resolution).” (Read the full resolution text here)

(APN) ATLANTA – H Res 333, the bill introducing Articles of Impeachment against Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, now has two co-sponsors, for a total of 3 current total supporters, including sponsor US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

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